Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

Identify the character who obtained the Salmon of Knowledge and who thereafter concealed his prior prophetic error.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, character, Knowledge · What happens: identify, obtain, conceal, err · To what, where: character, Salmon, prior prophetic error

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 character	det
3	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 obtained	nsubj
5	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 character	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Salmon	det
7	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 obtained	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Knowledge	case
9	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Salmon	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 concealed	cc
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 concealed	nsubj
12	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	13 concealed	advmod
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 obtained	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 error	nmod:poss
15	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 error	amod
16	prophetic	prophetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 error	amod
17	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 concealed	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the character		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	obtain	past	the character	the Salmon of Knowledge		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme
3	conceal	past		Knowledge's prior prophetic error	thereafter property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent error=Patient
4	err		Knowledge			nom error «act intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cormac

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cormac	Cormac	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the old druid of the fishing pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 druid	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 druid	amod
3	druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 pool	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pool	compound
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 druid	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the poet who was his teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poet	det
2	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 teacher	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 teacher	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teacher	nmod:poss
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poet	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the poet	his teacher					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Finegas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finegas	finega	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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